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GARMENT CLASP.

vN0. 299,726. Patented June 3, 1884.

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* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS P. BRAY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE ELM CITY SUSPENDEB CO., OF SAME PLACE.

GARMENT-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 299,726, dated June 3, 1884.

Application filed March 3, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS P. BRAY, of New Haven, in the county of New'Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew Improvement in GarmentClasps; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a front View; Fig. 2, a transverse section through the slide; Fig. 3, a vertical central section; Fig. 4., the frame with the slide detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in clasps such as attached to the end of a strap as a means for holding up the stocking upon the leg, commonly called stocking-supporters, and the invention consists in the construction of the clasp as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

The body of the clasp, as seen in Fig. 4, detached, consists of two sides, a a, with a bar, 6, joining them at the top, and to which the strap is attached, and across the other end is a bar from which a tongue, (1, preferably semicircular in form, extends upward between the two sides. The two sides are parallel throughout their lower portion. The frame is best out from sheet metal. Upon the two sides the slide 0 is applied. This slide is made from sheet metal, its two ends, 6 e, bent around the two sides of the frame so as to slide vertically thereon, the turned-over ends grasping the frame with sufficient friction to prevent the too free movement of the slide upon the frame.

Upon the lower edge of the slide is a tongue, f, corresponding to the tongue d of the frame. Preferably the two tongues are made substantially the same shape, one projecting upward (No model.)

and the other downward; but the plane of the tongue on the slide is outside the plane of the tongue on the frame, as seen in Fig. 3, and the lower end of the tongue f preferably turned 5 outward, and so that the slide '0 may be moved down and take the tongue f outside the tongue d, and thus cause the tongue f to overlap the tongue (1, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 3.

Theclasp is attached to the strap by a bar, I), in the usual manner. The garment is secured to the clasp by passing a portion of it v through between the two tongues when the slide is raised, say, as seen in Fig. 1, then the slide pressed down will grasp the protruding part of the garment between the adjacent faces of the two tongues and hold it firmly, both tongues having a certain amount of elasticity so as to yield to the varying thickness of the material between them.

The slide 0 may be provided with a thumb piece or projection, h, as a convenience for moving it.

I claim The herein-described clasp, consisting of a frame composed of two parallel sides, a a, con nected at one end by a bar for attachment to the strap, also connected at the opposite end, and there constructed with a tongue, (1, pro- .jecting upward between the bars, combined with a slide, 0, arranged to move upon the parallel sides of the frame toward and from the tongue, the said slide constructed with a tongue, f, corresponding to the tongue d, and

so that as the slide approaches the lower end 7 5 of the frame the one tongue will overlap the other, substantially as described.

MORRIS P. BRAY. 

